About Jeralyn
Dr. Jeralyn Carter offers calm, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, mood changes, relationships, and identity questions. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 18 years of experience and speaks English.
She practices in Hawaii and accepts international clients. Sessions can include video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth style.
Dr. Carter listens first, then helps set realistic goals.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools to manage symptoms and also pays attention to deeper life patterns that shape feelings and behavior. Her approach mixes familiar, skill-based methods and depth work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Jungian ideas to honor personal meaning and inner life. Dr.
Carter has worked with a wide range of concerns such as trauma, addictions, grief, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She helps people navigate life transitions, career stress, and intimacy-related issues with steady guidance and practical strategies. Her style is warm and nonjudging.
Sessions aim to be a space where clients feel heard and can try small changes that add up. Progress is tracked in simple, measurable ways so people can see how their thoughts, feelings, and routines shift over time.
Online approaches for skill building and deeper exploration
Dr. Carter uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful actions even when feelings are difficult. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where values-guided choices matter. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach concrete skills for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can help with depression, insomnia, and eating or substance-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means trying practical exercises, tracking results, and adjusting techniques when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face from their own schedules, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family life, or different time zones while keeping the focus on practical growth and emotional coping.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English